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Issue 65 (Summer 2017) Pages 27-32 As a tribute to the memory of Bill Richardson, this paper deals with the ongoing discussion between psychoanalysis and philosophy. It begins with Lacan’s poem, Panta Rhei – with Heraclitus in mind, and goes … Continue reading →

THE LETTER 61 Spring 2016, pages 23-31 This paper explores what is at stake when speaking about the Psychoanalytic Act – this with reference to Lacan’s ‘67-’68 seminar of the same name. The central place of Freud’s repetition compulsion as … Continue reading →

THE LETTER 01 (Summer 1994) pages 111-116 If, as Lacan says in his Seminar of 1972, Encore, to understand any discourse whatsoever we have to begin with the enunciation that there is no sexual rapport and that from this all … Continue reading →

THE LETTER 05 (Autumn 1995) pages 68-90 Lacan tells us in The Formations of the Unconscious (1957-58) that Freud, in his search for the Symbolic Origin and the Real Origin of the primitive chain in the history of the subject, … Continue reading →

THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 24-31 In a paper submitted to the British Journal of Medical Psychology in 1943, Ronald Fairbairn, the Edinburgh based psychoanalyst wrote Freud’s libidio theory has remained relatively unquestioned. This is a situation which I … Continue reading →